Yes. The Informix 11 DB is backwards compatible for use with the 9.2 client. That's why it is listed in the compatibility matrix.
For DB clients, AR System is compiled against a specific version of the client. Some database vendors provide backwards and forwards compatibility sufficiently such that other versions of the clients may work. However, some vendors do not - and BMC Support ran into several cases where a different version of the client than what was compiled against caused problems. The matrix now shows the client version that BMC compiled against and declares that as supported. In some cases (e.g. Sybase), the matrix explicitly calls out maintenance releases as well as they were found to work properly. By the way, in the Summer 2010 release of AR System, BMC is tentatively expecting that the client version will be updated to 11.5 and the minimum DB server version will be raised to 11.5 as well. -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** Yes, but will the 9.2 client connect to an 11 database? (I use Oracle. Back with ARS 6.3 I could use a newer Oracle than the client. i.e. 6.3 used the Oracle 9 client, but our database was Oracle 10. Can Informix do the same?) Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve McDonald Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** Not according to BMC. v9.2 of the client is the only supported version. Like I said, I used v10 of the Informix client to install ARS v7.1 and had no problems. Forsome reason that exact client cannot connect(withing the 7.5 installer) to the db. I can use dbaccess just fine. I recieved an email that I've been escalated so I'll wait for contact and see where this goes. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Grooms, Frederick W <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** As long as you are using the correct client the ARS 7.1 server should work with the higher level Informix db. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Steve McDonald Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:19 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** Turns out I'm using an incompatible Informix client. I looked at the compatibility matrix when I started the upgrade process and saw that for Informix on solaris the minimum db version is 10. I have that db on my db server and used the v10 client on my app server to upgrade to ARS v7.1 last year so I figured I was good. Not so fast grasshopper! I'm being told by BMC that only v9.2 of the Informix client is compatible and that is why it's failing. My DBA says 9.2 is no longer supported by Informix and is about 5 years old. The reason I'm upgrading to 7.5 is because for support reasons we are upgrading to Informix 11 and ARS v7.1 isn't compatible with v11. This is such crap On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Donald Morton <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This may be something that your Informix DBA may be able answer better. I would get the exact SQL used to connect from the install's sql.log (usually this is in a temp directory. /usr/tmp maybe?). Send the connect line and the error message to a dba expert, and they'll likely be able to tell you something. Are you running dbaccess as the same user that Remedy is starting up as? On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's a great question.. Also along with the install log in the same directory there is another log which has a little more verbose than the install log. You may want to check all those logs that get generated on that directory.. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 5:49 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix Is there an SQL log (probably in the same place as the install log)? -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Steve McDonald Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 4:45 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** It's an upgrade and the system works fine. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** Steve, Is this a fresh install? Or an upgrade? If its a fresh install, there technically should be no config files available unless you copied one from some other environment? In which case you will need to edit the configuration information manually on that one to point to the dev instance of the database. If it is an upgrade you are attempting, does the system currently stop or start with no problems? Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]On Behalf Of Steve McDonald Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 5:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** I probably wasn't clear enough. This is during the install process, right after inouting the database info. It trys to connect and throws the "Could not connect" message. I looked at the 7.1 install logs and the install never asked for 'AR System Server DB Login ID" or the password. I'm sure it pulled the connection info from the onconfig file. That would be the correct thing to do. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** Steve, Put the AR Server in a startup debug mode and then try to restart.. This is done by adding the flag -s (or -d I don't recall clearly) in the armonitor.conf file. Check for details on setting that flag on the AR Configuration Guide.. The server when in a debug mode during startup, writes additional logs to a file that gets created in the server directory. That file may have more information on why the startup fails.. Cheers Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]On Behalf Of Steve McDonald Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:30 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Problems Installing 7.5 on Solaris/Informix ** I am trying to upgrade ARS on my dev server which connects to a remote database server. I'm getting "Cannot connect to the Informix server" error. Install log only says "SET PROPERTY VALIDATION_ERROR_RESULT],Detail=[INFORMIX_CONNECTION_ERROR]" and no details. Informix logs show nothing. I can use dbaccess from my app server to access the db on the remote db server. I can also telnet using the specific port the Informix client uses to communicate(telnet suncoast 1721). I threw everything over to BMC Support but the response time is killing me. I go on vacation Tursday morning and I'd really like to have the dev server conquered before I go. Thanks! 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